Ted Herman @tedherman@social.cleverlibre.org

While watching a show online, I was served an ad from Millipore Sigma which touted their antibody products. Are others also being targeted for these products?

TIL Amazon Polly is a guy. Oh, and there's some cryptographic cloud thing. https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/new-move-payment-processing-to-the-cloud-with-aws-payment-cryptography/

AI > Yoko. https://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-65881813

“In a sense, shitposting is the highest form of consciousness.”

https://techcrunch.com/2023/05/30/antimatter-uses-memes-to-turn-c-students-into-c-students/

Large birds seen on today's bike ride: pelican, pheasant.

👾 🚀 👽 https://thedebrief.org/intelligence-officials-say-u-s-has-retrieved-non-human-craft/

Going from chainsaws, which have chains, to eBikes, which have chains, is a natural progression. https://www.husqvarna-bicycles.com/en-us.html

breakthrough! flavourless peas. https://www.foodnavigator.com/Article/2023/05/31/UK-project-aims-to-grow-tasteless-pea-protein-to-solve-beany-off-flavour-problem

@guan https://motivatedgrammar.wordpress.com/2012/02/15/sometimes-the-subjunctive-matters-that-wont-stop-it-dying/

The waterbed theory deserves to be more widely known. https://washingtonmonthly.com/2023/01/08/everyday-high-prices/

I just glanced at this photo and thought it was some modern building in China. Then I read the caption and found it was from the Indy 500.

from a distance, these sometimes look like they are on fire

this from the garden

roadside penstemon from today's ride

On today's ride, I noticed a young, small Killdeer scurrying on the road. Then an adult flew close by, making a lot of noise - a distraction strategy that did the job.

Wild roses, roadside today, while biking.

Google Bard sez - "If necessity is the mother of invention, then the father is curiosity. Curiosity is the desire to learn and explore, and it is often what drives people to invent new things. When people are curious about the world around them, they are more likely to see problems that need to be solved, and they are more likely to come up with new ideas for how to solve those problems."

There is a great anecdote from the Financial devils Dictionary about Olive Oil:

"Perhaps the earliest recorded options trade, according to Aristotle, was made by Thales of Miletus (ca. 624-547 B.C.), one of the Seven Sages of Greece, who put down deposits on all nearby olive-oil presses one winter when his knowledge of astronomy purportedly told him that the next year would bring a good olive crop. Thales paid almost nothing and profited hugely when the abundant harvest created high demand for presses thus making him one of the first individual investors to make more money trading options than his brokers did. He was also one of the last."

By October 1773, Phillis Wheatley was back in Boston, where she was now a free woman waiting ardently for copies of her books to arrive. “Since my return to America, my Master has at the desire of my friends in England given me my freedom,” she writes to Colonel David Wooster. In an odd coincidence, her books arrived in December 1773 on the Dartmouth, one of the ships involved in the Boston Tea Party.

Thirty years ago, an Attenborough narrated something about dinosaurs (Jurassic Park, 1993). Once again, this winning formula applies. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xWlmzl2jCNs